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The Lost Father

(1988)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1988 Booker Prize (shortlist)

The imaginary story of an Italian family from 1909 to the 1930s, with a framework in the present day. The narrator finds herself drawn into the passion and prejudice of her own invention, and we see how family memory, like folk memory, distorts and mythologises.


Genre: General Fiction

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